For example, in the studies Dr. Bushman and Dr. Baumeister carried out on aggression, they found that it was narcissism, self-love that includes a conviction of one's superiority, rather than a positive self-image per se, that led people to retaliate aggressively when their self-esteem was threatened.
Next, students were given an opportunity to retaliate aggressively by allocating hot sauce to one of the peers who excluded them during the game of Cyberball (Lieberman, Solomon, Greenberg, & McGregor, 1999).
Overall, then, past research is suggestive that fixed beliefs about the traits of aggressive peers may be especially likely to play a role in a desire to retaliate aggressively.
"A lurking concern is that this bill won't help the U.S. economy significantly and could instead hurt job growth if China retaliates aggressively and trade tensions compound economic uncertainty, setting back an already fragile recovery.
To analyze response to aggression, we categorized the responses as leave (move away from the aggressor from any proximity category to a larger distance), retaliate (respond aggressively to the aggressor), affiliate (respond with a friendly behavior), or ignore (no reaction or change in activity).
President Bush said today that he fully expected that Israel would aggressively retaliate after any unprovoked Iraqi attack.
That, added to Monet's daunting abilities and his bossy personality, plainly stung Bazille, who could retaliate only passive-aggressively.
Dr Sigman may well be right but rather intriguingly Völler proved the exception to the rule by refusing to retaliate in any way, aggressively or otherwise, bearing his multiple punishments and degradations at the hands of both referee and opponent with a stoicism that bordered on the truly heroic.
These kind of programs bring gang members into "call in" meetings with community members they respect, social services representatives who can help them, and law enforcement officials who tell them that they don't want to make arrests -- they want the gang members to stay alive, and that they plan to aggressively target people who retaliate.
Captain Gatto, who still works in the unit, filed a lawsuit last year, charging that his superiors retaliated against him for enforcing the law aggressively, his lawyer, Jonathan Abady, said.
Right now, Apple is aggressively suing nearly every major phone manufacturer, all of whom have retaliated and countersued.
